The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
INDEX="209"
NAME="Comprehensive ecosystem restoration focused on different diversity indices - a functional ecology approach"
TYPE="研究助成,"
YEAR="2012年度,"
AREA="日本全国,北海道,"
KIND="大学,"
ORG="Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Akira Mori, Associate Professor"
Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences Akira Mori, Associate Professor
Comprehensive ecosystem restoration focused on different diversity indices - a functional ecology approach
Research grant
- Project Description
In many regions around the world, diversity in native ecosystems is decreasing as a result of human activity. This reduction in diversity also decreases the 'bounties of nature' provided by these ecosystems on which human populations depend. This research aims to study land-based ecosystems in Shiretoko, a world natural heritage site, and quantify the changes to ecosystem diversity and functions that accompany land development. The chemical data gained will be used to inform ecosytstem conservation and restoration efforts.
- Grant year
- FY2012 Research Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
April 2013 - March 2016
- Grant amount
- 11,976,000 yen
- Activity region
- Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, Japan

Overview of the Organization

- Representative
- Akira Mori, Associate Professor
- Profile
- Specialist field
Ecology
Affiliated academic societies
The Ecological Society of Japan, The Japanese Forest Society, Ecological Society of America, British Ecological Society, The International Biogeography Society, The International Association of Wildland Fire
Background
Completed the doctoral program in agriculture from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Agriculture in 2004. Became a special overseas researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Simon Fraser University, Canada) in 2005, a specially appointed faculty member (assistant professor) at the Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences in 2008, a visiting researcher at Canada's University of Calgary in 2010, and assumed his current position in 2011 - WEB site
- http://www.akkym.net/research
- Collaborating organizations
- Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo, Hokkaido University, Kochi University, Waseda University
- Research record
- Has published over 50 original papers on forest ecology.
- Notable publications
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- Mori A, Takeda H. "Effects of undisturbed canopy structure on population structure and species coexistence in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan." Forest Ecology and Management 200:89-100. (2004).
- Mori AS, Mizumachi E, Komiyama A. "Roles of disturbance and demographic non-equilibrium in species coexistence, inferred from 25-year dynamics of a late-successional old-growth subalpine forest." Forest Ecology and Management 241:74-83. (2007).
- Mori AS. "Ecosystem management based on natural disturbances: Hierarchical context and non-equilibrium paradigm." Journal of Applied Ecology 48:280-292. (2011)
- Mori AS, Furukawa T, Sasaki T. "Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change." Biological Reviews 88: 349-364. (2013)
- Mori AS, Shiono T, Koide D, Kitagawa R, Ota AT, Mizumachi E. "Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity." Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 878-888. (2013)
- Authored books
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- Mori A. (ed.) Ecosystem management: Toward a comprehensive conservation of ecosystems. Kyoritsu Shuppan, 350p (2012)